Monument record MHG3312 - Kilmichael House

Summary

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Location

Grid reference Centred NH 5038 3031 (80m by 80m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH53SW
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish URQUHART AND GLENMORISTON
Geographical Area INVERNESS

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Kilmichael on Site of (NAT) Kilmichael Grave Yard (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1905)

The graveyard is believed to have occupied 'precisely the space fenced and used as ornamental ground from the Co. Road on the south to the garden fence a little north of the house'.
Name Book 1871

A church at Kil Michael was dedicated to the Archangel.
W MacKay 1893

The house, on the site of the graveyard, is still known as Kilmichael, and the tradition of a graveyard here (tho' not a church) is known locally; otherwise, no further information.
Visited by OS (R L) 23 Feburary 1970

A watching brief carried out by RoCAS in 2013 on the then vacant plot adjacent to the east side of Kilmichael House failed to locate any sign of the church or any burials. <1>

Sources/Archives (3)

  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Mackay, W. 1893. Urquhart and Glenmoriston: olden times in a Highland parish. 337.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Name Book (County). Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 56, 64.
  • <1> Text/Report/Fieldwork Report: Peteranna, M.. 2013. New House Site by Kilmichael House, Drumnadrochit: Archaeological Watching Brief. Ross & Cromarty Archaeological Services. Digital.

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Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

May 20 2013 9:59AM

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